Sources said that no charges will be pressed against soldiers who return to their military posts and surrender their arms.

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is supervising ongoing efforts and will speak within a few hours, a spokesman says. He is due to return to Istanbul in the very near future.

Erdoğan said he was still president and Turkey's commander in chief, promising that plotters would pay the heaviest price.

The news comes as broadcaster TRT - where the original coup announcement was made - returned to the air as the people and police have regained the headquarters.

Presidential Spokesman İbrahim Kalın also told NTV television: "The military commanders have made it clear that the coup plotters violated the chain of command... The people have shown that they stand in solidarity with democracy and the elected government."Источник: https://en.censor.net.ua/n397633

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